Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which criminal offences have been introduced by secondary legislation in each of the last 10 years.

This information can only be compiled at disproportionate cost.

As part of the coalition Government’s commitment to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences, the then Secretary of State for Justice established a Criminal Offences Gateway in June 2010 to scrutinise proposals to create new criminal offences. The Ministry of Justice also pledged to count the number of new criminal offences created each year across Government and to publish the resultant figures. Published statistics for the period June 2009 to May 2014 can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/385537/new-criminal-offences-june-2009-may-2014.pdf. This published data distinguishes between offences created by primary and secondary legislation, but does not list the individual offences.

Following the termination of the Criminal Offences Gateway in December 2015, there is no longer a business need to collect data on new offences. As a result, this bulletin is no longer being produced.